Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. I like to repeat the mantra, “necessity is the mother of all invention,&# meaning that because investors have this expectation you find entrepreneurs that focus on nearer term monetization.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

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APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, I first met him there and knew he was a talented entrepreneur that I wanted to work with some day. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!, Gyroscope is in double-dog secret stealth mode right now so I’ll focus more on the entrepreneur.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The wide range of startups is great and creates more opportunities for new talent and entrepreneurs to join the Los Angeles area. The area between Santa Monica and Playa Vista, otherwise known as Silicon Beach, houses more than 35% of startups in Los Angeles. With Yahoo!,

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Report Orange County Startup West Los Angeles 104

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JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. Community Sponsors. Giving Away An Apple TV.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

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AUGUST 3, 2009

There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. My favorite Rogers line was, “musicians of the future will be entrepreneurs and not employees [of labels].”

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! Extensive experience as an executive, entrepreneur and as an investor. Csathy was President and Chief Operating Officer of MusicMatch, Inc.,

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

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JULY 13, 2013

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. And no one could see me as anything but a startup guy, so I started a second company and called myself a serial entrepreneur. Then everyone just started calling me a serial entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur you have to suspend disbelief.

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Mark Suster – GRP Partners Mark joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Ian Rogers – Topspin Media Ian Rogers was the GM of Yahoo Music before heading to Topspin Media in April 2008 as CEO. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. He blogs here and tweets here.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

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JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, One of the major trends I’ve outlined is this movement of entrepreneurs (and as a lagging indicator venture funds) to more urban environments. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. It is the birthplace of Hewlett Packard.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44